Panasonic Lumix GH4 Available For Preorder

Panasonic has been really quiet on when the new Lumix GH4 would be formally released to the public, and for what price point. Boasting 4K video at 24p, videographers everywhere hope to see this little mirrorless system be the next workhorse in the budget videography world. Good news came late tonight, as B&H finally decided to give us a price, and a link for preorder on this exciting new camera.

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Maybe i was being too nice when i said it was ugly....what i meant to say, was "what the heck was the designer thinking when they built this? You're telling me they couldn't design an interface closer to the same size as a normal battery grip, (minus needing space for a battery), instead of something that is in no way even CLOSE to proportionate in size to the camera?....my concern is that the "interface" adds so much size vertically to the setup, that you may now have trouble getting the thing to mount on a set of rails properly, getting a follow focus to match, putting the camera on a glidecam and keeping the center of gravity low, etc, etc......that's what i MEANT to say...but yeah, it's still ugly. A phantom cam is more sexy that that, and it's just a rectangular box.

Correction. I have confirmed from two sources (B&amp;H tech support over the phone) &amp; Hot Rod Cameras via ( http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?320815-Secret-Appearance-of-the...) 10-Bit 4:2:2 4k uncompressed output is possible from the body's mini hdmi port. This would mean the YAGH interface is a broadcasting box for SDI switch boards and XLR audio recording. Again.. the YAGH interface is not needed for 4k 10-bit 4:2:2 uncompressed :)

Very exciting stuff! We have our camera on preorder and I will be personally attending NAB so I will have my eyes peeled for a 4k external recorder. Buzz is a 4k recorder coming from our favorite company starting with the letter "A". I'm willing to bet the model will be called the Shogun? ;) If all this is true however, this would mean we could achieve 10bit 4k aerial with our s800 evo.. very exciting times indeed!

Yeah Ive seen this as well, very ambiguous. I think the auto down convert is a feature that is reserved for recorders not capable of 4k recording; meaning the camera detects the recorder and then determines if it can achieve 4k recording and then the if statement is applied. This is very similar to the Odyssey 7q, but it is the opposite.. if the camera is not outputting the proper signal selected on the Odyssey.. instead of down converting it wont record at all. We will just have to wait and see, but I think it would be a safer purchase to hold off on the YAGH and go ahead and purchase your 4k recorder.. see if it works... and then if not purchase the YAGH.